• Ukrainian diplomats to Russian diplomats at UN Security Council: You have no right to talk about Ukraine

    The Russian Federation has neither the legal nor the moral right to talk about the situation in Ukraine in the UN Security Council until it returns the occupied territories and compensates Ukraine for the losses incurred, said Deputy Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Yuriy Vitrenko, at a UN Security Council meeting about children and armed conflict, in response to a statement by the Russian delegation about the situation in Ukraine.

    “The UN General Assembly has …

  • Ukrainian Prime Minister is calling for more investments into Ukraine

    Ukraine can be the safest and most efficient start-up to invest in, as stated by Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman during the Toronto Global Forum on Monday, October 30, which he attended as part of a working visit to Canada.

    "Businesses are often looking for those startups that can be invested into in order to get a high-quality business and become successful. I believe that Ukraine can be the safest, most effective start-up, where we can invest and know that we can receive income and develop …

  • Since the beginning of 2017 the Ukrainian Army has received 10 aircraft and 875 units of new military equipment

    Since the beginning of the year, the Armed Forces of Ukraine has received 875 units of weapons and military equipment, as reported by the official spokesman for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Andriy Lysenko, Ukrinform reports.

    "Since the beginning of the year, 875 units of weapons and military equipment have been delivered to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including 10 aircraft, 2 helicopters, 67 armored vehicles, 26 missile and artillery armament units, and 319 cargo, ambulance, and …

  • Ukrainian Foreign Minister: We cannot draw parallels between Catalonia and the Crimea

    Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin believes that parallels should not be drawn between Catalonia, which declared independence from Spain, and annexed Crimea because of the absence of Russian troops in the first case.

    "Imagine 2,000 Russian tanks and armored vehicles, thousands of Russian regular troops and tens of thousands of Russian mercenaries all in Catalina today. All this would be controlled by Russia... But in the sense of Russia's attempts to conduct a hybrid war …

  • US Senator: Russia benefits from Ukrainian corruption

    US Senator Chris Murphy has shared impressions from a recent trip to Ukraine, Voice of America reports.

    The purpose of the trip to Ukraine was to “learn more about the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine and how the United States can support our allies in eastern Europe against an increasingly aggressive Russia," Senator Murphy wrote on the website Medium.

    During the trip, he delivered a speech at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, where he noticed that his students were concerned …

  • Prosecutor General of Ukraine investigates the financing of some Ukrainian regional governments with Yanukovych’s money

    The Prosecutor General's Office (GPU) is investigating the funding of the former heads of the Regional State Administration of the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne regions, Vasyl Yadukha and Vasyl Bertash, from the so-called black accounting department of the Party of Regions, Ukrainski Novyny reports, citing court documents.

    The Prosecutor General's Office asked the court to provide access to documents which are currently at Khmelnytskyi and Rivne regional administrations and which contain samples of …

  • Polish Minister of Defense says Poland will receive Patriot missile systems in 2019

    Minister of National Defense of Poland Antoni Macierewicz has stated that the first shipment of the American Patriot surface-to-air missile systems with anti-ballistic missile capability is expected in Poland within a couple of years. Polskie Radio broadcasted the information.

    According to Macierewicz, the shipment of weapons was already confirmed by the American aerospace and defense company Raytheon.

    The minister also mentioned the Narew procurement program for short range (up to 25 …

  • US representative for Ukraine Volker: DPR and LPR do not belong in the Donbas negotiation process

    The US Department of State’s Special Representative for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, believes that representatives from the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics have no place in the negotiation process to resolve the situation in the Donbas. He expressed his opinion in an interview with Hromadske, while answering a question regarding the role of LDPR in the Minsk negotiations.

    "I believe that this issue was decided; that the Minsk agreements are between Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE. The …

  • Putin signs decree on unified air defense system with Belarus

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has ratified the protocol to the agreement on joint protection of the airspace of the external border of the Union State and the creation of a unified regional air defense system of the Russian Federation and Belarus.

    The agreement itself appeared on February 2, 2009 and the protocol was signed in Minsk on November 2, 2016. The State Duma adopted the corresponding bill on October 20, 2017 while the Russian Federation Council approved it on October 25.

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  • International Criminal Court takes on Illovaisk tragedy

    The International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague is analyzing information on whether the department has the right to investigate the death of Ukrainian soldiers in Illovaisk in 2014, Ukrainian Ambassador to the Netherlands Vsevolod Chentsov reported, as cited by UNIAN.

    According to the diplomat, the investigation procedure for the ICC is “slightly different from the national procedure”.

    “Officially the prosecutor’s service of the ICC has initiated a procedure to make a preliminary inquiry …